The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-06-09
LONDON CABLE LETTER.
THE PoPE's ADVICE IN THE ITALIAN
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

King Humbert'S Recent Course TO EStabs
Iish Friendly Relations Between the
Vatican and the Quirinal-Great Distress
In Hungary-FOreign News.
LONDON, June Yesterday's Catholic
victories in some of the italian municipal
elections lare thought to be the result Of the
pope's recent advice that Catholics should
take more prominent part In politics than
heretofore. The exhortatisn could hardly
have been so Immediately effective. how
ever, If it had not been supplemented by
favorable attitude on the part Of the govern
ment toward the Catholic candidates. In
some cases the government caused it to be
known that coalition candidates. would be
looked upon with favor This has led to
compromise tickets in which the ultramon-
tame element has respectable showing.
The word ultramontane in fact, no longer
represents the Catholic party, unless it is to
be given a different meaning from that
which it acquired in the less recent conflicts
between the vatican and the quirinal King
Humbert's recent course indicates that the
desire for re-establislment of friendly rela-
tions between those two repositories of power
in Italy is mutual, and tits whispered that
the next time the italian treasury draws It's
check for the enormous sum annually set
| apart for the pope, the money will not be
refused as heretofore on the ground that his
holiness cannot accept compensation for be-
ing deprived of his rights as a sovereign.
A prominent engineer points to the fact
that the floods which are devastating the
Thesis valley of Hungary are the direct re-
suit of human stupidity and not visitation
Of Providence. The river should never have
been diked at all. The typographical oondi-
tions Of the country demand the annual in
undation Of part of the valley. When de-
| voted to agriculture under the ancient sys.
tenn this region was marvelously fertile on
account Of IL 3 annual floods. The attempt
| to prevent them has led to false belief in
the security of the inhabitants, and encour.
aged permanent establishments which suffer
| greatly when nature bursts the barriers
which men vainly set up against her forces.
The writer instances the lower Mississippi
| valley in America as a similar illustration
of his theory. He regards the treatment Of
the Nile as affording an example Of the true
method of settlement along great rivers, tho
| periodical flooding Of the adjacent country
being utilized as an aid to the growth Of
crops which In the end become a source Of
| greater revenue than can be realized by
forcing an artificial use Of tho river and its
surroundings.
| It is stated that the foreign Office is greatly
lncensed by the statements of the Russ an
ambassador at Constantinople that large
sums of money were used in bribing Turkish
officials to use their influence with the sui
tan in favor of the convention for an Eng
lish protectorate of Egypt Very strong
representations on the subject it is under.
stood, are to be forwarded to st. Petersburg
and grave consequences may possibly ensus
unless M. Nelidof,s statements are repudis.
ted by his superiors